WASHINGTON -- In a blowout presidential election, a few large issues dominate. In a tight election, a range of smaller concerns -- important to strategic constituencies in battleground states -- can end up being crucial.

President Obama may have ...

WASHINGTON - Europe's economic struggles are a consistent drag on American growth. A eurozone breakup, in chaos and acrimony, could be a Lehman-like shock of incalculable damage.

For years, the stronger European economies have managed to bump ...

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney did not rise on the power of his rhetoric. At the Detroit Economic Club in February, his speech was swallowed by its stadium venue, overshadowed by a gaffe (his wife's "couple of Cadillacs") and weighed down by leaden ...

WASHINGTON -- Principled or calculating or a bit of both, President Obama's choice on gay marriage is a bet on the political future -- a wager on the views and values of the millennial generation making its long march through American institutions...

WASHINGTON -- "We're not going back. ... We're going forward," said President Obama during his formal campaign kickoff in Ohio. This rallying cry was pedestrian, and appropriately so. Obama is no longer a leader on horseback. His campaign -- on ...

WASHINGTON -- Scrolling through the headlines in The Long War Journal -- a website dedicated to terrorism-related news -- is an education in the global drone war. Mohammed Saeed al-Umda, one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards, confirmed killed by a ...